Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Nov 8: Breaking away from the culture of working in “silos”, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh today convened the first ever joint society meeting of all the national autonomous institutes in the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and called for integrated “whole of government” approach.
Five autonomous institute societies, that is, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS), National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) and National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) have been merged into a single society of MoES.
Apart from Dr Jitendra Singh, who is the President of the Society, Members, Dr M Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences; S Somanath, Secretary, Department of Space; Dr N Kalaiselvi, DG, CSIR and Secretary DSIR; Dr K Radhakrishnan, former Chairman, ISRO; Dr P S Goel, former Secretary, MoES; Dr Harsh K Gupta, former Secretary, DOD/MoES; Dr Shailesh Nayak, former Secretary, MoES & Director, NIAS, Bengaluru; Dr GA Ramadass, Director, NIOT; Dr T Srinivasa Kumar, Director, INCOIS; Dr R Krishnan, Director, IITM; Prof Jyotiranjan S Ray, Director, NCESS; Dr Thamban Meloth, Director, NCPOR took part in today’s deliberations.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, Ministry of Earth Sciences has taken the notion of “Marine Surveillance” to a new level, where Space applications are also being deployed to share the valuable inputs with the security agencies. The Minister informed that Oceansat will be launched on 26th of November, 2022 and preparation for a NASA-ISRO Radar System is at an advanced stage. He also informed greater use of Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS, as one of the key sources of position information, alongside radio navigation systems, which exchange information with nearby ships and land-based vessel traffic services (VTS) on a vessel’s position, course and speed.
Taking a review of the design and development of manned submersible – MATSYA 6000, Dr Jitendra Singh said, completion of all testing shall proceed for shallow water testing of manned submersible during the first quarter of 2024 using the NIOT-MoES research vessel ORV Sagar Nidhi. He informed that based on the ongoing progress, it is expected that all the long lead components shall get realised by the third quarter of 2023 to proceed for the subcomponent integration and testing by following due DNV approved interface procedures.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, for the benefit of ocean scientific community, under the Deep Ocean Mission’s SAMUDRAYAAN program of Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), the deep-water human submersible MATSYA6000 is designed and developed indigenously by National Institute of Ocean Technology, an autonomous institute under MoES. The battery-powered submersible MATSYA 6000 shall have the capability to carry three persons upto 6000 m water depth and perform scientific exploration with a normal endurance period of 12h and emergency support for 96 hours.
Secretary, MoES, Dr M Ravichandra said that considering the complexity in the depth rated component custom design, realisation and testing of other subsystems; contract were signed for the long lead items with national and international agencies for the subcomponents realization.
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